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GF Rating
7.3

16488 ratings

Critic & User Reviews

GF Rating
9

Excellent

Taken By Surprise

posted by Djohns30 (CANTON, OH) Sep 12, 2011

Member since Sep 2009

2 out of 2 gamers (100%) found this review helpful

When I first saw the trailer for this game it was the little girl in the hall way running, i thought awesome game. then i saw the actually game play along with the corny one liners that follow. it made me not want to play it. I gave into not having a game and rented it.

ITS FREAKIN AMAZING
its everything a life like zombie game should be. you can do real time trading with other online players, weapons wear down, pretty much everything you see is useful and the fact that you cant walk 20 yards without looking behind sets the bar for paranoia.

Good Specs
Graphics are much better than what they show in the trailer
Sound effects are awesome
Game play is dmn near perfect
A.I. is basic but, what do you want they're zombies. When they attack though they are non-stop
Modifying and creating new weapons is a huge plus, much better than Dead Rising
Online game play is just plain old fun

Bad Specs
there are so many glitches especially when it comes to the quest guide, the lines sometimes wont show you the correct way to go. A.I. friendly players sometimes lock up or get stuck in the ground.

HONESTLY
Dont let the glitches stop you from playing, its so much fun you look past it. just Buy this game!!!

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GF Rating
8

Very Good

BUY but wait for patches.

posted by Shadowkarm (KILLEEN, TX) Sep 6, 2011

Member since Aug 2010

94 out of 111 gamers (85%) found this review helpful

You can choose from 4 different hero's: Throwing expert, Firearm expert, Edge weapon expert, or B weapon expert. You get stuck on a paradise island where the zombie apocalypse has occurred. You run into interesting characters while you try to find a way off the island.

THE GOOD:
- Numerous quests to drain hours out of you life.
- Graphics are good
- 4 player co-op
- Voice acting is good
- dead rising type customization of weapons
- tons of different weapons
- fairly realistic characters
- once you die you are revived about 10 feet from where you died (can be bad at times)
- tons of exploring to do
- and who does not like killing zombies?

THE BAD:
- Fair bit of bugs
- Matchmaking is buggy as of right now
- textures take a while to load
- weapons break after a few hits
- some quests have no indicators of where to go

VERDICT: Wait till some patches are put out to fix the bugs in game. None of them are game breaking but can get annoying. Has great replay-ability

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GF Rating
8

Very Good

Good... Bloody... Fun

posted by rEmEtAJeRk (HORSEHEADS, NY) Sep 7, 2011

Member since Dec 2007

45 out of 53 gamers (85%) found this review helpful

Dead Island has taken the best elements of Borderlands and Dead Rising and squashed them together in a bloody good first-person killing spree. The drop-in, drop-out campaign is wonderful (minus those creepy kids who jump in, take great weapons and run away) and the missions are really fun (even with all the coughing, crying, whining people that remind me so much of those in Dead Rising). The world is huge and running around, kicking and smashing the undead is brilliant! The game is a bit glitchy right now, and i hope that will be patched soon. Other than a few out of the box flaws, the game is great fun and has hours of replay value.

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